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Just for fun.

By The Armorer on July 30, 2008 | | Comments (20)
These things have several things in common - (the items in the foreground, for you smarty-pants types).   Name 'em, and let's see whose first toget the thing about them that caused me to procure 'em for the Armory...

Extra geek points if you ID the items.  Pictures are below the fold.


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By Eagle 1 on July 30, 2008 12:12 PM

Spigot mortar and carbide cannon both fired by acetylene?

Eagle 1

 
By BillT on July 30, 2008 1:05 PM
Really effective paperweights. Not practical, but really, really effective.
 
By Ymarsakar on July 30, 2008 1:10 PM
You must have a lot of paper, Bill. Maybe a mountain of it?
 
By John of Argghhh! on July 30, 2008 1:26 PM
Eagle - I like your thinking.  It's wrong, but it's clever.

Bill - pllppppttttt!  And the second wouldn't be that effective, the wheels roll.  The first one - yeah, baby!  Heck, heat it up, and you could iron it.

Both are fully functional, btw.
 
By John of Argghhh! on July 30, 2008 1:28 PM
Erm, that should be "iron with it."
 
By AFSister on July 30, 2008 1:37 PM
They're all models. 
 
By John of Argghhh! on July 30, 2008 1:43 PM
Nope.  Not in the sense you mean it, anyway.
 
By Ymarsakar on July 30, 2008 2:23 PM
These wouldn't happen to be bore drills for cannon, would they, John?
 
By Justthisguy on July 30, 2008 4:05 PM
The second one sure looks like a pretty good model of a First War heavy gun. The first one looks First War-ish, too.
 
By AFSister on July 30, 2008 6:53 PM
Models as in "functional and hand made"
 
By Justthisguy on July 31, 2008 1:33 AM
They both shoot the same blank cartridge.
 
By Ymarsakar on July 31, 2008 2:27 AM
Is that pine apple thing in the top picture, next to the barrel, a cluster bomb?
 
By Neffi on July 31, 2008 7:43 AM
A spigot-mortar and a model of a German/Austrian howitzer (my Hoggs are in a box somewhere).... both designed and employed to mutilate and murderize the PBI of the Great War via indirect fire.
 
By fdcol63 on July 31, 2008 8:11 AM
Are you wanting something more precise than "spigot" mortar for the top one?  Isn't this a Granatenwerfer 16 or "Priest" mortar?

http://members.fortunecity.com/milit/gr16pic.htm
 
By John of Argghhh! on July 31, 2008 9:02 AM

Ymar - no, that's a bomb for the spigot mortar.

Neffi, true enough - but not what I'm after.

Of course, I'd have been *shocked* well and truly, if you'd gotten what tickles me about them.

That said - y'all are doing well in your analysis.

 
By fdcol63 on July 31, 2008 9:09 AM
The top one is a Granatenwerfer 16 or "Priest" mortar.
 
By fdcol63 on July 31, 2008 9:21 AM
John, did you add them to your collection because of a WW1 / 1916 / Battle of the Sommes connection?
 
By Neffi on July 31, 2008 9:48 AM
ummm.... both made by Krupps...?
 
By John of Argghhh! on July 31, 2008 9:54 AM
Neffi!  Well done, sir!  Not the exact connection, but it is exactly the *type* of connection. 

I have answered the question here.  And you even got mentioned, Frank!
 
By fdcol63 on July 31, 2008 10:13 AM
Aw shucks.  LOL  Thanks, John!